Miami, whether it is your home or your favorite vacation destination, is a city that stays with you. It’s the kind of place that becomes ingrained in you, in booty bass and neon, in sunshine on the sea breeze and cocaine in a dive bar, in downtown skyscrapers and South Beach pastels…
Legal recreational weed in Florida just got closer to becoming a reality. John Morgan, the Orlando attorney whose fortune and advocacy helped bring medical marijuana to the Sunshine State, says he’s throwing his weight behind an effort to get recreational pot on the ballot in 2020.
Podcasts are the best. They fill the most monotonous hours of the day, from driving to work to picking up groceries, with interesting material. Sometimes they’re educational, sometimes they’re just entertaining, but one of the things that’s consistent among the best podcasts is they’re hard to turn off, no matter…
There’s something genuinely exciting about seeing part of your hometown or even your home state on the big screen, especially when you’re from South Florida. Most movies wind up set in New York City or Los Angeles, and more and more of them are being filmed in Atlanta or Vancouver, but there are plenty of films where you’ll find perfectly recognizable stretches of Miami’s beaches or familiar streets in Coconut Grove.
As Art Basel has grown into the biggest art fair in the world, Miami has become known as an international hub of the visual arts, on par with cultural nerve centers around the globe. In recent years, the Magic City has also begun to earn its due recognition for being home to a rich and burgeoning performing arts scene.
As the medical marijuana market continues to bloom around the Sunshine State, Curaleaf, one of South Florida’s main cannabis providers, is about to open the state’s first drive-thru pot dispensary.
When you look up at a billboard during your commute, what do you usually expect to see? Most of the time, it’s nothing but advertisements. Once in a while, though, you find one that’s trying to tell you something rather than sell you something.
Tourists aren’t the only ones making their way to the Magic City. A bunch of the biggest names in rap will perform too. But don’t scramble to find out who’s playing where. We’ve got you covered. Here are the ten best hip-hop concerts coming to the city this week.
The debate over gun control is a louder part of the national conversation than it’s ever been before. It’s a polarizing dialogue, and to be a part of it is, almost inevitably, to have an opinion. But what if that conversation wasn’t happening only on your Twitter Facebook feeds? What if those questions became more concrete? How would your opinions take shape then?
With its combination of cam girls, marijuana industry experts, and tattoo artists and aficionados, the Cons was already set to be a huge event. Now, the convention that’s bringing three of the biggest alt-lifestyle cultures together May 29 through June 1 at the SLS South Beach has added the most famous adult superstar on the planet.
In October 2015, Category 3 Hurricane Joaquin ripped through the Caribbean. It was a storm that confounded meteorologists and sank the cargo ship El Faro, bound for Puerto Rico. Along with the vessel, 33 sailors were lost.
It looks like 4/20 will be a big day for marijuana in Miami Beach. The island’s first cannabis dispensary will open on South Beach tomorrow, just over a year after city commissioners agreed on four zones where marijuana establishments would be allowed to set up shop.
It’s easy to be indecisive when you’re blasted and have too many options. So instead of spending three hours trying to figure out what to do after finishing your blunt, read this list and decide now.
Today, legal marijuana flourishes in fields and greenhouses from Homestead to Tallahassee. Every day, new cannabis clinics hang green neon crosses in their windows, while millions of dollars pour in from global investors looking to get into the Mary Jane business. Weed has finally gone legit in Florida. So it’s…
Festivals draw droves of music lovers to parks and fairgrounds across the nation for a variety of reasons: the hours of live music, the feeling of community, the outdoor ambiance. And, yeah, some revelers show up to get high with the beats.
Fútbol is far and away the most beloved sport on the planet. Even in Miami, where the game is often eclipsed by the Miami Heat, the Dolphins, and the Marlins, soccer has an enormous devout following. Now, before that following has a chance to cheer in the stands of this city’s own MLS pitch, they’ll be able to enjoy their love of the game at a museum.
There’s a reason the cliché of the starving artist has stood the test of time: Getting by as a working creative is hard — really hard. Studio spaces cost money. Paints, brushes, and canvas cost money. Clay and steel and camera gear, they all cost money too. And in a city as expensive as Miami, money isn’t the easiest thing to come by for artists on the rise. Fortunately, ArtCenter/South Florida just made their lives a little easier.
Hashtags and rallies are important parts of raising awareness and calling the public’s attention to an issue, but sustaining engagement and momentum requires more than that. If the #NeverAgain movement — or any other movement — is going to last, activists need to learn a lot of truths about organizing and activism from those who have come before them.
The beach is one of the defining facets of Miami that make this city magic. The white sands are Florida’s identity — an oasis that beckons everyone and belongs to no one, not the billionaires in beach chairs or the kids skipping class and sitting on their backpacks in the sand. But all of that might change very soon.
Less than 6 weeks after the shooting in Parkland, the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School led more than 20,000 people through the streets of their community in Saturday’s March For Our Lives. And while the most visible of the MSD survivors made their way to Washington D.C. for the main march, those that stayed behind continued the fight on their home turf.
In 2015, Katiana Urbina was was diagnosed with a brain tumor. After the surgery that saved her life, Urbina found motivation and inspiration in the work of Kanye West. Two years ago, she bought a VIP ticket to his concert in Miami to try and meet her hero. Now, she’s premiering a short film about him that aims portray West in a positive light that Urbina says people have forgotten.
The career path of Dr. Hervé Damas has been unorthodox. He has been a linebacker for the Buffalo Bills, a professor and wellness director at the College of New Jersey, and an interventional radiologist at Mount Sinai. Most recently, though, he has taken on the mantle of marijuana doctor.
